The terror group ranked the young Londoner as among the 66 most important jihadist Twitter accounts.

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The 22-year-old used Twitter and Instagram to post violent messages and pictures

After she was arrested, Esayed claimed to police that she was merely interested in learning about Muslim struggles in Iraq, Syria and Palestine.

But in April, she pleaded guilty to charges of encouraging terrorism and disseminating a terrorist publication.

Her lawyer Tanvir Qureshi told the Old Bailey: "Yes, she is a Twitter terrorist but she is a Twitter terrorist who lacked creativity.

"She did not have a blog. She was blindly cutting and pasting."

He said her postings were just "propaganda" and there was no practical advice to any budding terrorists.

Yes, she is a Twitter terrorist but she is a Twitter terrorist who lacked creativity

Defence lawyer

However, Judge Charles Wide told her: "This material and its dissemination is an important factor in the encouragement of young men and women to travel abroad and engage in acts of terrorism.

"It is a matter of great and justified public concern. You were disseminating such material on a massive scale over a period of just short of a year.

"An indication of how busy you were in this activity is that on a site associated with al-Qaeda your Twitter account was noted to be one of 66 important jihadist accounts.

"The material you were disseminating encouraged young men to go and fight and you now accept that was your intention and furthermore to encourage women to go to support them and indeed to bring up their children in the belief that it is their duty to take up arms to wage violent jihad and embrace martyrdom.

"And furthermore to encourage mothers to be proud of their sons who die as martyrs."